CHR 603192 B – Chamaedorea elegans Mart.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 603192 B
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
11 November 2008
Database record updated:
07 April 2015
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Chamaedorea elegans Mart.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
2003-05-27 (Verbatim: 27 May 2003)
Preferred name:
Chamaedorea elegans Mart.
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Arecales
Family:
Palmae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
[Unknown]
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Country:
Unknown
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Christchurch Botanic Gardens
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.530379 172.620934
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, Botanic Gardens
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 29/03
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
27 May 2003
Start date:
2003-05-27
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Cultivated in glasshouse.
Notes:
Small slender-stemmed palm c. 1 m high (young) and with trunk c. 70 cm high. Leaves strongly arching, 70-80 cm long; petiole channelled above; rachis ± flattened; pinnae to 19 x 2-3 cm, lanceolate-acuminate, thin, deep green, shining beneath, reduplicate at insertion; terminal pair connate proximally, in 12-13 pairs. Inflor. interfoliar; peduncle c. 24 cm long; rachis c. 18 cm long or more, somewhat zigzag; bracts 3-4, sheathing peduncle. Spikes to 17 cm long; rachis angled; flower buds subglobose, 1.5-2 mm diam.; calyx cup-shaped. Stamens slightly inflexed in bud; pistillode prominent and slightly > stamens.
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to C
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